A practical technique for accurately modeling reconfigurable lumped components in commercial Full-Wave Solvers [EurAAP Corner]

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 298-303

  Yousefbeiki, Mohsen ^a   Perruisseau Carrier, Julien ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

equivalent circuit; microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); modeling; Reconfigurable antennas; semiconductor diodes

Indexed keywords

BIASING CIRCUIT; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; EQUIVALENT-CIRCUIT MODEL; LUMPED COMPONENTS; MEASURED RESULTS; PIN DIODE; PRECISE MODELING; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MEMS; MODELS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

EID: 84869413284     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2012.6348181     Document Type: Article

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